Lower School (KS1)

Happy 5th Birthday Tommy, we hope you have a fabulous weekend celebrating!

In Lower School we have been learning about why we wear poppies and the significance of 11am on the 11th November. Also that it has been 100years this year since the First World War ended. 

We have made some poppies in an art lesson to remember and say thank you to all the soldiers who have…

We have had a busy first week back after half term with a lot of learning and fun happening in Lower School. This half term in EYFS the topic is 'At The Park' and the children were thrilled to see their new role play area which is Percy's Hut in the park based on the stories written by Nick…

We had great fun on Friday the children came dressed as their hero or heroine. Thank you to all our parents for supporting this fundraiser.

Isaac came as Captain Edward Smith, Captain of The Titanic.

Ted came as  his grandad Ted who fought in the Second World War.

Bethan came as Mary…

So far in our learning we have been lucky enough to have received photos and videos of penguins all the way from the Falkland Islands and now we have news of pigs and piglets much closer to home!

This week our exciting learning continued, as my Family pig, Delilah, gave birth to 8 lively…

Our topic this first half term is called Penguins, Possums and Pigs. Over the past few weeks the children have been learning about penguins. They have learnt about their habitat, where they can be found in the world, as well as how they survive and grow.

We have been lucky enough to receive…

We learnt about seasons in Reception this morning and what to spot when looking for signs of Autumn. We had fun outside spotting different signs of autumn and found: fallen leaves, cooler weather, wind and leaves changing colour.

In the classroom we had fun using conkers and leaves for…

Taking advantage of the sunny weather we had a maths lesson outdoors this morning. Reception children were busy counting objects that couldn’t be moved whilst Year 1 children were busy jumping up and down number lines finding one more and one less. Year 2 children were counting in tens. We had fun…

Ted is such a superstar, he is enjoying our topic so much that he made a penguin and wrote a penguin themed book at home last night. The first part of his book contained a story he wrote about a penguin and a boy then he had written a page of penguin facts at the end. 

He proudly read his book…

Year 2 have had great fun learning the spelling rule for the ‘s spelt with a c’ this week. They have done a variety of activities but their favourite was the ice race that Miss Haynes thought of for them! Linked to our penguins theme the children used penguin puppets to slide along the ice picking…

Happy Birthday Amelia 7 toda!

Learning how to think of and write questions.